Surname statistics for Cornelius

There are approximately 3,132 people named Cornelius in the UK. That makes it the 3,171th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 50 are named Cornelius.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)31323171N/A50
United Kingdom (1881 census)86943920.00329
Change since 1881+2263+1221+0.002+21
Other Countries
United States193421699N/A72
Australia5183105N/A32

Politics

People with the surname Cornelius are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Cornelius are:

  1. Conservative (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Paul Cornelius
Michael Cornelius
David Cornelius
Richard Cornelius
Philip Cornelius
John Cornelius
Ian Cornelius
Andrew Cornelius
Peter Cornelius
Stephen Cornelius
Neil Cornelius
George Cornelius
Brian Cornelius
Gary Cornelius
Timothy Cornelius
James Cornelius
Ronald Cornelius
Alan Cornelius
Stewart Cornelius
Anthony Cornelius

Top female forenames

Sarah Cornelius
Diane Cornelius
Abby Cornelius
Gail Cornelius
Janet Cornelius
Sharon Cornelius
Susan Cornelius
Ann Cornelius
Theresa Cornelius
Claire Cornelius
Barbara Cornelius
Angela Cornelius
Katherine Cornelius
Elizabeth Cornelius
Tracy Cornelius
Deborah Cornelius
Patricia Cornelius
Joanne Cornelius
Jane Cornelius
Rebecca Cornelius

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.